Laws, regulators, antitrust, copyright and privacy: government action on AI and what it means for commerce.
The non-binding May 2026 note uses four levels with no numeric scores or averaging, and lists life and health insurance pricing among consumer protection risks.
Our takeArticle 27 of the AI Act requires deployers of AI for credit scoring or life and health insurance pricing to assess rights impact before first use, a duty now applying from December 2, 2027.
Requests for information cover sandbox security, outside evaluation and usage monitoring after a summer of agent containment failures.
Our takeMost commerce companies won't hear from the AI Office directly, but its questions to OpenAI and Anthropic on security, external evaluation and usage monitoring are likely to show up in vendor reviews. Retailers running agents that touch customer accounts, payments or supplier systems should be ready to answer them too.